4 day work week "experiment" to cut fuel cost, goo
 

Chysler in Toldeo is considering this move. A lot of companies may try this to cut fuel and energy cost.

This could be huge headaches for some of the trucking indusrty:

Imagine shippers and recievers being closed Fri-Sun, This would create a lot of logistical nightmares.

The traffic patterns would change, more trucks crammed on highways Mon-Thur

More pressure on disaptch resulting in more pressure on drivers to driver harder, faster and longer in many cases.

More trucks squeezed in shipper/reciever yards, less room to park.

Do you think working 10 hours a day 4 days a week would increase the productivity of the people loading/unloading you?

Many of us would get hit hard in the pocket.

Could a 4 day work week end up being the norm in the next 5 years?

Re: 4 day work week "experiment" to cut fuel cost,
 

Companies who go to 4-10's will usually stagger their work force to where someone different is off each day. You may or may not always have the same days off. Some Fedex Freight barns have had their city guys on 4-10's for a few years now. They get the weekend and one day during the week.

And the way the economy is going, you may hard pressed to stay busy 4 days a week. I've seen my dedicated route go from 5 days a week to 4 and the manufacturer I haul for has layed off 1/3 of their work force.

Companies could stagger manufacturing without doing the same with shipping.

Then the shipping/receiving guys will be pissed all the time because everyone else in the building has a 3 day weekend except for them and then the union will get involved and before ya know it, the place will be closed.....

a four day work week does not neccisarily mean fri, sat, and sun as days off. it just means 4 day work week.

The job I retired from was a 4-10 place and I enjoyed having fri-sun or sat-mon off.

the notion that we can be a nation of consumers that produces nothing is not sustainable.
in japan children go to school 6 days a week and receive a solid 8-10 hours of the 3 r's plus science and languages plus 2-3 hours of homework.
south korea launches an oil tanker or freighter every day.
our heavy industry is in china where they comlpete a power plant evry week and the goverment subsidises gasoline to stimulate the economy and the people are parking their bicycles and buying cars. buick is their favorite
their must be a backlash againts barry husseins austerity program

Let IBEW or AFL-CIO, or UAW get a good foothold into China or Korea and see how they do......

Re: 4 day work week "experiment" to cut fuel cost,
 

Very possible mohawk. At least in the past, 4 days work weeks were common in Western European countries.

Regarding irregular-route OTR trucking? Makes no difference at all. The driver is already sitting free for, why not tack-on another 24 hours?